Comments on: Capitals lack a clear No. 1 goaliehttp://nhl.nbcsports.com/2011/12/22/capitals-lack-a-clear-no-1-goalie/
ProHockeyTalk on NBCSports.comFri, 18 Aug 2017 04:18:10 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: davebabychreturnshttp://nhl.nbcsports.com/2011/12/22/capitals-lack-a-clear-no-1-goalie/comment-page-1/#comment-25967
Fri, 23 Dec 2011 17:39:19 +0000http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/?p=61117#comment-25967I hope people remember predicaments like the one the Caps find themselves in right now the next time the cheap goalie philosophy becomes the theory du jour again among armchair GMs.

(In fact I would suggest that the Kings aren’t much better off – although we’ll see how Bernier develops. Jon Quick is a decent young goaltender but he has some major holes in his game that are not being exposed because of their tight team defense. Teams are going to start burying those rebounds eventually.)

Neuvirth is still just a kid for all his potential, and while they have Vokoun under a great contract right now, I think the fact that he took a deal like this suggests that his value around the league was not that great. Think about it – there are still goalies out there signing big contracts (look at Bryz in Philadelphia) and Vokoun’s reputation suggests he’s a goaltender of that calibre.. yet nobody was clamouring for him on July 1st. I would place him roughly in the same class as some of the other goaltenders signing at around his cap hit – Mike Smith, JS Giguere, Jose Theodore. Most of those guys are doing about as well as can be expected given the defense in front of them, and Vokoun is no exception.

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Fri, 23 Dec 2011 09:01:45 +0000http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/?p=61117#comment-25924Semin’s SUPPOSED to be the second star, in theory, so that’s who I meant. Backstrom… well, it’s hard to hold much against him. The guys he’s supposed to be feeding barely shoot, rarely hit the net when they do, let alone score, and his abysmal +/- rating is the result of running one of the worst goaltending combos in play this season. Basically, it’s hard for me to criticize him too harshly when his statistical shortcomings are more or less everyone else’s fault. He’s trying. He’s just trying on a bad team. I think it’s entirely fair to call them that, now. They’re just… *bad*.
]]>By: bigbear42http://nhl.nbcsports.com/2011/12/22/capitals-lack-a-clear-no-1-goalie/comment-page-1/#comment-25922
Fri, 23 Dec 2011 08:02:16 +0000http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/?p=61117#comment-25922“Their second star’s somehow even MORE mediocre”

Are you referring to Semin or Backstrom? Backstroms been pretty good(emphasis on pretty) but Semin has been a disaster.

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Fri, 23 Dec 2011 06:08:18 +0000http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/?p=61117#comment-25912So, yeah. Their star D-man is coming back who the fuck knows when. The rest of them are okay, but nothing to write home about. Their top-paid “star forward” is going to have to step up his game to break the thirty-goal mark. Fifty’s right out at this point. Their second star’s somehow even MORE mediocre, and their goaltending is laughable. If you told me to guess which team this was at the start of the season, I’d have said the Montreal goddamn Canadiens, who are just about the only Eastern team that have managed to actually be MORE of a trainwreck. At the rate they’re going, that first-round pick the Avs send ’em might actually be worse than the one they earn themselves. =/
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Fri, 23 Dec 2011 04:35:48 +0000http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/?p=61117#comment-25892Neuvirth is good. He didn’t get to start any extended stretch this season. His GAA will keep going down.
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Fri, 23 Dec 2011 04:03:11 +0000http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/?p=61117#comment-25889agreed. kid was GOOD last year.
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Fri, 23 Dec 2011 03:07:01 +0000http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/?p=61117#comment-25884I wouldnt be surprised if they gave Holtby a shot soon, if nothing more than to shake things up
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